GOOD NEWS, we got an aquarium light today, 3 ft one for AU$ 55, slim design, fits under the hood, rests on the tank sides, just perfect. Got it from another pet shop, made the tour today and shopped in 5 (!) It is second hand too, but in very good nick. New ones would have cost about AU$ 130.Also bought a lovely "Deep Sea" background poster. .....and seen sooooooooooo cuuuuuuuuuuuuute fishies: white comets with a red "hat" or yellow-golden with a black "hat" and stripe along the back and the dorsal fin black and gold. Looked as if they were dressed up to go out for dinner Some had a black dot on their nose, like a doggy nose, lol SO SWEET

Sealed the tank today and polished the edges, hubby put undercoat on the stand, it will be sprayed tomorrow.Next weekend we'll take it inside and I can start filling it, setting it up and while it starts cycling we will restore the hood.

And I'm excited for you! It will be so much fun setting it up and when finally finished and you can sit back and enjoy it!Where are you putting the new tank? In the living room or other room?And Don't forget the pictures!!!!!

LOL, I remember the COLD winters we had sometimes in Munich, -18 and so, and once we flew out for holidays to Australia and they had to defrost the plane before take off. ... I was shaking in the cabin, I was REALLY SCARED

Hanna: The stand looks lovely. I'm trying to see if my boyfriend or his brother can make me one for my b-day, maybe I'll model it off that but with some doors. Plus those comets with the litle 'hats' sound soo cute, wish I saw ones like that here. I'd get a black hat one hehe

This tank is going to be so gorgeous when it'll be done! It looks so elegant already! With the dark wood.. c:And just imagining it filled with beautiful gravel, decorations, plants and fish... It's like a dream! :'D

We're thinking of having that black sparkling gravel and a few white patches. I also bought a nice piece of driftwood for the centre piece. I think the golden fishies will look nice swimming above the dark gravel?

Wow, that sounds great! I would definitely vote for the dark gravel! The plants and the fish would standout so beautifully then The gravel I have for my tank is rather dark too, but kinda' mixed so it has some lighter parts And I have a few whitish green pebbles to go with it

Hanna,The brown color is beautiful. Is this the hood or is it a canopy for the tank? Or maybe it is part of the stand?Is there another glass piece or plastic with glass that fits on the top of the aquarium under this??Sorry trying to get a visual in my head. Just thinking that if this is the only thing between the aquarium and the tank that water fron condensation might be a problem?Sorry sometimes I think too much. Just didn't want this beautiful piece to be ruined by water and salt and other chemicals that go into the tank.

Thank you Mindemae, it is the hood and the piece for the flap, which we will put together with those deco-hinges and with the fish knob. On earlier pics in this post there is the stand. I will buy some dark brown baskets to "hide" the fish stuff, as it hasn't got doors.

Nossie, white pebbles, what a great idea.

We chose the brown colour because it matches with the rest of our furniture, some sort of coffe-chocolate brown

... need to work Sat + Sun, will have Mon+Tue off, Tue we've got house inspection

You know these wax cloths for tables? These are incredibly useful to have under a tank since it will protect the furniture under it from water stains So, just for your stand to be as nice as possible for as long as possible it might be a good investment I've used a cloth that I have folded twice or three times, so it covers the whole surface of the furniture beneath. It makes things softer under the heavy tank, and protects the furniture even better that way (But I guess with the polystyrene on top there, it would be fine with one layer of cloth)